the top of his head was completely. wrong. and the smell of the smell still. an eyewitness to the notorious civilian mass slaughter by u.s. troops in iraq which was caught on video tells aussie that taking part of the campaign left his own life in utter ruin. north korea's suggestion that pyongyang embassies be evacuated leaves the international community unsure of the communist states intentions. was taking advantage of china's new strain of bird flu kill six promising mass poultry slaughter the investigator who could thrive from the fast spreading panic.

international news and comment live from moscow this is also here with me hello and welcome to the program. as in three years since wiki leaks released a graphic video dubbed the collateral murder showing u.s. helicopters flying over a dozen iraqi civilians they didn't show the world it also left a mark on many american soldiers who witnessed the massacre one of them has exclusively spoken to r.t. revisiting the tragic day he says destroyed his life. back to where it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army veteran even mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters here approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume with these guys. and from looking at it now you can't see anything. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you were to really pay attention. that guy has an a k forty

seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven the two hundred sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this was a battalion wide mission and then the situation turned deadly. we heard the apaches firing. ethan and his infantry squad it began running toward the scene to provide support again the apache helicopter opened fire. when he arrived on the scene the apache guns were quiet the accused enemies were dead. one guy's head the top of his head was completely off and the brains were. were on the ground and the smell of this smell still haunts me to. i don't even know how to describe it when he approached the van

a noisy thing wasn't expecting a cry of a little girl and she's four years old. you could tell she had a wound to the stomach and. remember looking at me in the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabs a girl and ran into a nearby building he then picks glass out of her eyes so she could blink and handed her off to a medic i went back outside and. i. was told to take pictures i started taking pictures of the inside of the van and that's when he discovered the little boy and that's me. who to her. that is a little boy who i originally thought was dead despite their injuries the children survived but part of ethan changed forever that day i couldn't stop myself from crying i couldn't stop myself from feeling the way that i was feeling when he did

seek mental help he says he was mocked by his commanders and threatened with expulsion from the military when i started drinking and metal had given me prescriptions thirteen prescriptions. geodon depakote. prozac and i was i was a zombie but things got worse it's started daydreaming of killing my own children and everybody around me so even took matters into his own hands i had already began drinking pretty heavily and. down all the pills and i drank a fifth of crown row ten o'clock in the morning and my wife at the time found me that was the first time ethan tried to take his own life after that he was dismissed from the army i was kicked out with no disability

. no benefits from the army was whoever he returned to wichita and then even attempted suicide for a second time. i actually wrote a poem right before i did. where put the gun in my mouth and. i don't know if i really want to talk about it. he's been story is tragic yes but he certainly isn't alone tens of thousands of military veterans suffer the effects of p.t.s.d. long after they leave the battlefield and for the also simply can't cope with the stress often times they choose to end their own lives their fathers and brothers sons and soldiers and now they're simply another times will see an american wars abroad in the past two years alone ethan has lost eight of his veteran brothers to suicide and his outlook on life hasn't improved with time i know that i will never

ever ever get better i'll never get over this for the world the collateral murder video was just another black mark on an unpopular war for ethan it was a catalyst that made him question the entire purpose of the iraq war america. john wayne you know we we were the white. americans are always out what are we doing to try to help people that's all we do is try to spread freedom and democracy the barrel of a gun history will be the ultimate determinant of how the iraq war is viewed but for ethan and so many soldiers suffering from post war stress the future is far and the past is too much to cope with reporting from wichita kansas meghan lopez r.t. and a role in this story plus the for collateral murder video is available on our website . north korea has once again may be international community

wary of a possible conflict on the peninsula by suggesting that foreign embassies evacuates their staff the morning follows reports that pyongyang placed a of its mid range missiles on mobile launchers on the east coast in turn south korea and the u.s. moved into septa missiles and warships to the region but the such moves are increasingly pushing the north on their fence so says political writer and journalist. north korea's hol intention is to show its willingness preparedness to defend itself should war should war be launched upon it of course the every year we have these massive provocations of joint u.s. and south korean war games exercises right on the borders of north korea this year the provocations were stepped up to actually simulate mutely a missile attack on north korea b. two bombers were used for the first time along be fifty to use an f. twenty two bombers so this military to military provocation from the us north korea

feels rightly threaten the seen as happened to iraq to libya and so on it feels threatened it knows it was under the overt explicit list of. the american government some years ago and it needs to make for very clear that it will not tolerate any kind of infringement of its sovereignty any attack and this is what all of this is about is to show that it's willing to defend itself as the world keeps a close eye on the buzz break in china panic is already spreading across neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the sixteen affected figures far from an epidemic he is casey pilbeam that's not who might hope to benefit from any bad flu hype. panic is already spreading across the globe over fears of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local market japan has health warnings on people coming into the country from china hong kong shares slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel

vietnam pounds poultry imports from china and taiwan raises quarantine level alerts while the u.s. and china are already looking into creating a vaccine for this specific type of bird flu drug producers are already poised to jump in produce a cure at a price of course now let's look at the example of britain in the swine flu epidemic which cost the british taxpayer one point two billion dollars asked the government panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant glaxo smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it make you a billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu a third of which directly or flu every year while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. and the call would go down

a line vote for you where you can have your say on the latest panic about and to his some of the results he actually we have right now for you just a hopeful those who voted say big flu will provide big pharmaceutical companies with opportunities to cash in and around a quarter sized snow was then a normal flu shouldn't be hyped up twenty percent believe it is dangerous and before it becomes an epidemic and only five percent feel the new virus will damage asian economies but remain contained in the region had to call and give us your view.

this is a head for you this hour they can only one time school with heads of state and business leaders from all over the world attending lots o. c. reports from china. plus war was the escalating tension between israel and palestine sparks an advertisement take fatah to new york that's just ahead for.

international that in the very heart of moscow. he or chassis welcome back now heads of state and business leaders and nobel prize winners have gathered in china to discuss economic and other pressing global issues

the twelve blowout forum has already proven a truly global eventually is here once again bringing the world's attention to emerging nations of a growing economic clout local correspondent alexander trick us of reports now from china for us. when people hear it can only forum the first thing that comes to mind is this no escape in doubles but this is not changing as the repertoire eyes of the so-called asian tigers has shifted the focus east towards when it comes to the world's economic development established twelve years ago the ball forum had its main focus in asia but it left the door open for other countries to join in the years later in two thousand and thirteen we have top ranking government officials and business leaders from all over europe and america attending the conference including bill gates christine legarde and george soros and the excitement is understandable as well america and europe have been dealing with a no go in economic recession china's trade ball in his skyrocketed for example the trade wall between brazil and china in two thousand and twelve alone has reached

a whopping one thousand percent or seventy five billion u.s. dollars the same happen to other countries in the region they can china their number one trade partner the place previously occupied by the u.s. on the top of that china and brazil have recently struck an agreement to ditch the u.s. dollar and trade in their own national currencies similar agreements have been made between china and russia and china and australia china's rise has certainly faced criticism and accusations of currency many feel lation from washington best is feeling that is losing its position as the world's leading economy. but china consistently demonstrated its resilience in diplomacy and its independence in the economic decision making so the tropical island of nine may be nothing like the mighty slopes of switzerland but the economic agreements made here may send avalanches across the globe that are just as powerful. and of course for recovering before and for you throughout the next three days on the line here on out.

you would believe economic forum for the big players who are shaping tomorrow's global ecology while twenty thirteen the stakes are high today on our t.v. billions of hidden don't was astonished and tucks havens have been brought to light the international consortium of journalists leaks a report exposing over short times of some well known corporations and high profile figures such as the election campaign treasurer for france's president or loaned and grey from financial advisory from a sample of his size of funds parked was so loving is becoming an effective trend let's use france as an example if you look at what's going on there you have the president he's pushing for a seventy five percent tax on millionaires well some of his body employees and close colleagues are keeping their money offshore so i think you almost have to

rely on the sort of twenty first century vigilantes to really get the true information it's easy to say one thing you know corporate billionaires and fat cats and all of that it's another to actually see it in writing go two point five million accounts and see who's hiding what so i think you're going to see a further ends of that kind of vigilante and secondly it'll be interesting to see what happens in the euro zone most of all i mean you have riots in several countries right now from regular you know folks who are being asked to take their belts not just not take. eating their children meanwhile the leader is friends and like their colleagues are busy dashing their way and knocking arguably their fair share of taxes i think it would be pretty devastating if something didn't come out with. more news for young line including exxon mobil has been named the

winner of the save shell board not just by the ongoing cleanup operation after the oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas. convert got a timeline of the disaster with food and background. plus we'll tell you why grazing human organs using a three d. printer could replace traditional medicine in the near future. europe is being alarmist that's the view of russian president vladimir putin as he discusses new laws to monitor non-governmental organizations financed from abroad and the interview to a german broadcaster the president says the politically involved organizations operating nearly a billion dollars combined should follow russian laws owner has the details. let amir putin face the questions from the german broadcaster in typically bullish manner he said that there wouldn't be any kind of witch hunt against n.g.o.s operating within russia this is after the russian president and new laws on

non-governmental organizations operating within its borders the president pointing out that there's six hundred and fifty four n.g.o.s currently operating in russia many of them dealing with the internal politics of russia and these new laws were in place to find out basically just where the cash that goes to finance these non-government organizations is coming from and just regarding how much that cash is it's around one billion u.s. dollars a year so they wanted to find out who's putting money into russia and where that's coming from. the law does not prohibit then he thinks you know there's a limit on closedown anything short of organizations financed from abroad or not forbidding to carry out any type of activity including internal political ones the only thing we want to know is who receives money and where it goes i repeat again the law is not some sort of innovation of our own the shockwave still being felt

from cypresses recent financial straits. and said this we're going allegations that cyprus has become some kind of laundry for the russian money that those making those allegations well they better have some pretty hard facts to back them up that will is that fair that people invested their funds mainly deposited their money with banks without breaking any laws or whether the laws of cyprus are those of the european union just this she sixty percent of the poses forfeit that they did not violate any rules of the allegations that cyprus was as they say in the financial community a laundry for dirty money they have to be supported with hard facts that we create that off shoes or don't know and we didn't know it was the european union that created. rather it was created by the cypriot authorities with the approval of the european union while syria was a top were a major topic that was touched upon during this interview putin saying that an end

to hostilities must come from both sides in the conflict this is always been russia's point to to find a solution to what's going on in syria he also touched on the point of. what's always said that russia is arming assad now let me prove he said there's no laws anywhere that would make darts illegal to there's no law stopping the doing of business with a legitimate government which the assad government still remains however what there are laws against is arming paramilitary groups the recent past three point five tons of missions and weapons have been given to the opposition fighters in syria by outside forces now there are laws against that serious international law and he said that that must stop and i'm going to r.t. dot com for a full transcript of the interview and find out what led to my position had to say about other pressing global issues that. u.s.

secretary of state john kerry is june israel hoping to restart in active peace talks between tel aviv and run moller this follows renewed turbulence between israel and palestine spawned by the death of a format hamas member in israeli custody and as our partner reports now they ever high tensions in the middle east have spilled over into a full on propaganda war in america. as the international community continue searching for the best path to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious ad war in new york are proposed to mean group recently unveiled an ad campaign that calls on the u.s. to stop sending three billion dollars in aid to israel every year the poster compares israel's policies to the south african apartheid and also includes a quote from doesn't into two who led the fight against the apartheid now this campaign is being sponsored by the american muslims for palestine national

grassroots advocacy group now in the meantime grow is really a group called the american freedom defense initiative is planning to fire back with a campaign depicting what it calls. apartheid the counter ads which have already been submitted to transit officials for approval show the image of two blindfolded iranian men getting wrapped with nooses the caption below reads under islamic law shari'a another ad shows a woman dressed in a white burqa getting whipped and there the caption reads under islamic law rape victims are tortured or killed unless they agree to marry their rapist no last year the american freedom defense initiative sponsored an ad campaign that compared muslims to savages those debuted in new york city's subway stations jewish organizations in the majority of new yorkers criticize that campaign as hate speech the tone of speech that does nothing to assist in cementing

a permanent peace plan in the middle east reporting from new york marina. when the wall this hour the death toll in illegally constructed building in the city of mumbai collapsed has now reached seventy two official say over seventy have also been injured rescue workers through a massive pile of debris all the hopes of diminishing of finding any survivors. you of wise president has refused to apologize after apparently being caught on microphone calling his counterpart from argentina and old. tina have filed a protest against their neighbor. thought to be critical of christian aggression our recent meeting with the new. york. with the latest eurozone crisis seemingly resolved in cyprus the spotlight has shifted towards the blocs third largest economy submerged in recession since twenty eleven actually also remains in a political stalemate after the latest election five weeks ago failed to result in

a coalition government and. their insurgent is opposing the future of the euro in a fresh perspective. a country with a glorious past and a very uncertain future the word crisis has been used so often in recent years with an e.u. nations that it may have lost all meaning but recent elections in italy have shown a total collapse of mario monti's austerity measures which were supposed to yank the country out of the economic hole yet didn't achieve much other than create division and uncertainty right left everybody understand the deep crisis and the. proposition. two trillion euro that's the amount of italy's national debt threatening to force entire cities to declare bankruptcy tax hikes pay cuts sporadic corruption scandals

and youth unemployment at over thirty percent these are the top of the list of reasons italians say they have lost faith in country's politicians and that is largely wife february's elections were described as a victory for bet agree loz five-star party a movement which positions itself against everything italian politicians have done or said in the last two decades italy is european union's third strongest economy thus any small storm in the country may pretend a tempest for europe putting the future of the euro at stake and if in italy. but he got the sense this will influence him good luck to leave the european politics some analysts say the e.u. states may share common currency and enjoy open borders their attitude towards one another is infused with discord for the moment it has been yes. well we could do a much much more you know by agreeing among countries on the financial us.

with being so disparagingly called peaks. it's not figs it's its financial attack and it's a private the italians headed to the polling stations desperate for a leader who could bring back stability and prosperity of the nation once enjoyed but the results seemed to show unity only in the resoundingly no to this series of measures put in place by mario monti begging the question just what kind of future is in store for the euro zone. in rome even. come your way we're reporting on the lions and troubles of palestinian families living next to an israeli west. thanks for joining us.

you know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans currently for around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut on get mall i hate that term condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and gloriously declaring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine. dollars expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are super cool and awesome do you realize that it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of

the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paper work tomorrow buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

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